Flake discoverability

Currently there is GitHub - NixOS/flake-registry: Global registry of Nix flakes

How to discover distributed flakes?

Discover from the github API?
See one example doing this: GitHub - casey/janus: 🧐Justfile ecosystem analysis tool

Client side or server side?

We’re thinking about adding flakes to the search feature on the nixos.org homepage: Add flake search feature · Issue #125 · NixOS/nixos-search · GitHub. I.e. we’d index all repositories on github.com containing a flake.nix file allowing users to find packages/modules/… provided by public flakes.

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